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Best Open Source Cloud Infrastructure Management Tools

Ranked by GitHub stars — actual adoption, not editorial taste. All 10 are free, open source and self-hostable; license and last activity on every entry.

  1. 1
    kubernetes ★ 129K

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  2. 2
    Docker ★ 72K

    The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  3. 3
    kong ★ 44K

    🦍 The API and AI Gateway

    Apache-2.0 Lua pushed 2026-10-19 details →
  4. 4
    trivy ★ 39K

    Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  5. 5
    portainer ★ 39K

    Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

    Zlib TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  6. 6
    OpenTofu ★ 31K

    Open source infrastructure as code tool

    MPL-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  7. 7
    floci ★ 28K

    Light, fluffy, and always free - The AWS Local Emulator alternative

    MIT Java pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  8. 8
    jenkins ★ 27K

    Jenkins automation server

    MIT Java pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  9. 9
    Pulumi ★ 26K

    Infrastructure as code in your favorite language

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  10. 10
    argo-cd ★ 25K

    Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
method stars desc · snapshot from github api refresh nightly related Backup & Recovery, Search Engines, Server & VM Management, Monitoring & Observability, Storage Solutions, Orchestration & Scheduling

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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best open source Cloud Infrastructure Management tool in 2026?

kubernetes leads the ranking with 128,842 GitHub stars, ahead of Docker. Rankings use live GitHub star counts, refreshed nightly.

How is this list of Cloud Infrastructure Management tools ranked?

By GitHub stars — a proxy for adoption and community size. Each entry also shows its licence, primary language and last commit date, so you can judge maintenance activity rather than trusting the ranking alone.

Are the best Cloud Infrastructure Management tools free?

Every project on this list is open source and free to self-host. Some also offer paid managed hosting, but the software itself carries no licence fee.